Wells students celebrate another Colors Day

Thursday

Jul 31, 2008 at 2:00 AM

WELLS — The annual Colors Day at Wells Elementary School has become a day-long celebration of the joint efforts of students and staff to help maintain a safe and positive learning experience throughout the school year.

WELLS — The annual Colors Day at Wells Elementary School has become a day-long celebration of the joint efforts of students and staff to help maintain a safe and positive learning experience throughout the school year.

Festivities began with an outside parade with students dressed in unique colors representing their respective classrooms. A major part of Colors Day is the presentation of large banners created by each classroom in a specific color. The banners were also part of the parade and later displayed on the walls of the auditorium.

There were different events throughout the day to reinforce the core values of Colors Day, which include cooperation, sportsmanship, teamwork and fun. The events included relay races, a Tug-of-Colors, and a bucket brigade.

Along with the banners, students also wrote lyrics to a song about Colors Day. The banner, song and other factors were judged by the school's core team of teachers.

Colors Day was created by physical education teacher Kathy Calo. For many years Calo planned and organized the event. The event is now supported, planned and organized by the Parent Teachers Student Association.

This year, the association's Colors Day Committee consisted of Heidi Heyland, Liz Clough and co-chairs Nicole McAllister and Laura Subilia-Bell. In a 2007 interview, Calo credited Subilla-Bell for assistance in the early years of Colors Day.

According to Subilia-Bell, there were 80 volunteers who worked on this year's event. Those volunteers included parents and grandparents. Many other members of the organization helped with preparations, registering guests, organizing the parade, running refreshment stands, guiding children between the events and supervising the contests. Since 2005, the association has purchased T-shirts for all students to wear on this day.

This year, organizers ran a contest among 35 fourth grade students to design the front of the T-shirt for the kids. Fourth grade student Connor Heyland emerged as the winner.

— Reg Bennett

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